Buy this album, you won't regret it!!!!

I have listened to this album over 40 times now and it has yet to lose its magnificence. This truly is an outstanding album, I think it may have surpassed "Die for the Government" and "A New Kind of Army" as being my favorite record that the A-F boys have put out. Don't let the little record label logo on the back of this album sway you from buying this album, just get it! This picks off right where "The Terror State" left off, but manages to be infinitely better.

Musically, lyrically, and aestheically, this album goes above and beyond all of their previous efforts. The packaging is superb! It comes with a neat stencil of the classic "Gun-Star" logo, and "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THE U.S.A.?" typing that they also encourage the stenciling of, it's cool for tagging and making shirts. The booklet also has very insightful essays and such from a Rwanda Genocide survivor, John Perkins (Author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", and it explains the titles/subject matter of their songs and shows many of the political communities that they've started and support.

This is without a doubt one of the most crucial albums of the year, get it.

JXS

One problem is that they fill this album with one too many cliches, and it's not the fact that they use cliches that ruins it, but it's because they are cliches that they have used before (see "Project For A New American Century" and "The W.T.O. Kills Farmers"). Some may be astonished by the poppiness of tracks like "This Is The End (For You My Friend)" and "Cities Burn". That doesn't mean that those songs are bad, but it's just something to think about. Fans of loud and fast Anti-Flag will enjoy "Emigre", "I'd Tell You But...", "State Funeral" amd "Depleted Uranium Is A War Crime," the last three of which could have easily been on The Terror State by the sound of them. Most of the songs are good, especially "The Press Corpse" and "1 Trillion Dollar$" the latter of which is probably only good because it almost sounds like it could have been from Justin's solo project and it's kind of dumb and funny.

The packaging is interesting. The sleeve sucks really, but that's only because (and some may deny it) it is a form of censorship a-la the Terror State's alternate sleeve. Major labels don't want people seeing the real cover for ovvious, major-label reasons. The artwork is cool I guess, but nothing compares to the craftsman ship and effort put into The Terror State's package. And sometimes when I look at it, with the exception of the White House shot, I feel like they kinda half-assed it. They put some good information in there in terms of essays and such, but it's sort of hard to sit there and read all of it because the black on red and white is a bit hard on the eyes.

Overall, I would recommend this to any fan of Anti-Flag, but punker-than-thou punx may want to beware. I think this album was meant to introduce broader audiences to Ant-Flag's music and message and in that, it has succeeded astonishingly, at least it will if lots of people buy it. It has some of the old (harder tracks), some of the new (poppy tracks) and good old fashioned predictable Anti-Flag slogans. So enjoy as much of can of it. I got a free t-shirt with the purchase, so I'm not complaining.